معرفی، نقد و بررسی کتاب «فرهنگ و شهر»
«فرهنگ و شهر» با زیر عنوان «چرخش فرهنگی در گفتمانهای شهری با تکیه بر مطالعات شهر تهران» کتابی است از نعمتالله فاضلی در باب انسانشناسی شهری، این کتاب…
The Northern Sea Route and waterway infrastructure in the Russian Arctic: a seminar on anthropological perspectives
The European University at Saint Petersburg will host a seminar on the Northern Sea Route at its research Center for Arctic Social Studies. The seminar will be held…
Prof. Dr. Ulla Johansen passed away
On 14th of February 2021 in her 94th year of life a great person, colleague in Arctic Anthropology and professor emerita of ethnology, Ulla Johansen passed away. Born…
Remembering Leith Mullings (1945 – 2020)
Leith Mullings, Social Justice Anthropologist Jeff Maskovsky, City University of New York Leith Mullings’ death is a terrible blow to anthropology – and a heartbreaking loss to those…
Disability Justice and Material Needs: Reflections on the Experiences of Autistic New Yorkers Living Under Covid-19 by Cara Ryan
As a member of NYU’s Disability Equity in the Time of COVID-19 research team during the summer of 2020[1], I had the opportunity to conduct seven virtual interviews by…
Veranstaltung: Die Generation Indernet
Ende der Neunzigerjahre begannen die Kinder indischer/südasiatischer Migrant_innen in Deutschland sich zu vernetzen. Unter anderem organisierten sie Partys, Seminare und schufen Internetprojekte….
Veranstaltung: Die Generation Indernet
Ende der Neunzigerjahre begannen die Kinder indischer/südasiatischer Migrant_innen in Deutschland sich zu vernetzen. Unter anderem organisierten sie Partys, Seminare und schufen Internetprojekte….
Links & Contents I Liked 395
Hi all, My highlight of this week was definitely an opportunity to deliver a short keynote and participate as a judge in the annual challenge of Engineers Without…
Special Focus: The Morton Cranial Collection and Legacies of Scientific Racism in Museums
Pressures in and outside the academy are forcing museums to grapple ever more deeply with the legacies of scientific racism embedded and embodied in their anthropological collections. The…
La valiosa obra de un heterodoxo
Artículo publicado en El País el 19/8/1995 con motivo del fallecimiento de Julio Caro Baroja LA VALIOSA OBRA DE UN HETERODOXO Manuel Delgado Demasiado vasta, demasiado versátil, profunda…
Elesha J. Coffman, “Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith” (Oxford UP, 2021)
Elesha J. Coffman’s Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith (Oxford UP, 2021) takes a careful look at Mead’s religious origins and influence. As a famous American anthropologist, Mead’s inte… Visit New Books…
Patricia Hill Collins, “Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory” (Duke UP, 2019)
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or…
My Mother was a White Women
Shirley Marie Menzies, née Naud. Born Sept. 13, 1932. Died April 18, 2013. My mother was a teacher, that was her vocation, as much as it was for moments…
Two new books!
My apologies to readers. I haven’t posted in a while. But I have an excuse. Two excuses actually. I spent the first half of 2020 scrambling to finish…
Happy Anthropology Day!
David Beriss The big day is here. Today is Anthropology Day! Every year the AAA has organized this, we have completely forgotten to acknowledge it. But not this…
Impfstart in China – mit konventionellen Methoden gegen ein neuartiges Virus
Das SARS-CoV-2 hält die gesamte Welt weiterhin in seinem Bann. Hoffnung bieten Impfstoffe. In China sind zwei Präparate aus eigener Produktion zugelassen, die bereits verimpft werden. Mit der…
Faktencheck: Chinesische Gesundheitspolitik
Im Rahmen ihres Industrie-Großprojekts „Made in China 2025“中国制 2025 hat die Volksrepublik die Biotechnologie und die Impfstoffproduktion als eine von mehreren Schlüsseltechnologien ausgemacht, in der …
Faktencheck: Chinesisches Gesundheitswesen
Es gibt in China im Gegensatz zu Deutschland kein Hausarztsystem. Daher geht man auch bei kleineren Beschwerden in die örtlichen Krankenhäuser, etwa zur Medikamentenausgabe. Dies war ein wichtiger…
Faktencheck: Pharmaindustrie in China
China ist der weltweit drittgrößte Absatzmarkt für Pharmaprodukte nach den USA und Japan. Bisher ist der chinesische Pharmamarkt etwa zur Hälfte von ausländischen Konzernen dominiert, wobei der Anteil…
Infrastructuralizing outer space, un-earthing anthropology
Chakad Ojani: On October 14, 2020, the Swedish government announced its decision to grant 90 million SEK to support the expansion of Sweden’s space center and rocket-launching site…
Why Write for SAPIENS?
In the summer of 1960, Jane Goodall left England for what is now Gombe National Park in Tanzania. With the aid of legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, Goodall was…
Moving between Anthropology, Activism and Art
Bartira Fortes: Street Art of Marielle Franco by Rodrigo Rizo Art in its broad spectrum – visual, sonorous, literary, or performative – have offered anthropological research a laboratory…
Academic Fictions: You are John
ff 1. There are two twins sat on the beach but one is farther up the shore, closer to West Point, or right inside it, depending on which…
T. M. Luhrmann, “How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the…